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0. 533,412. Patented Jan. 29, 1895.

WITNESSES: IN VENTOR ATTORNEY NITED STATES PATENT GEORGE C. OOON, OFELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO FREDERICK G. VAN VLIET, OF NEW YORK,N. Y.

CORK-CAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 533,412, dated January29, 1895. Application filed March 29, 1894. Serial No. 505,519- (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE O. COON, acitizen of the United States, and aresident of Elizabeth, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Cork-Caps, of

which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a cork cap of special construction for use oncorks wired into bottles and the object of my invention is to devisesuch a formation of the cap that the wire will be securely retained fromslipping laterally 0E from the cap.

Another object is to spread the top wires which pass over the capparticularly in case the bottles with which the cap is used be wired bymachinery.

Another object is to provide the cap with penetrating points adapting itto be applied to the cork before wiring and also to adapt the cork to bedrawn by a cork screw without removing or detaching the cap from thecork.

In the accompanying drawings to which reference is made, Figure 1 is aplan view of my new and improved cork cap. Fig. 2 is a sectional Viewtakenon line on a: of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a similar view on line y y ofFig. 1. Fig. 4. is a perspective view of the cap.

A represents the complete cap in its most approved form. It is made ofsheet metal, preferably tin, struck up in a die into the form shown. Atopposite edges the metal is notched as shown at a a to receive the wireor wires. Two sets of such notches are here shown. Adjacent to saidnotches are formed detents b 17 formed preferably by striking up themetal as shown. The said notches permit the wire or wires to drop downat the edges of the cap in contact with the cork so they will notproject at the edges of the cap or require too sharp bends to be made inthe wire, while the said detents serve, not only to prevent the wirefrom slipping 01f from the cap, but also as guards to the wires toprevent them from being shifted out of place in handling or packing thebottles. At the center of the cap between the notches and detents isformed the ridge 0 for spreading the wires and guiding them into properposition in the notches. This ridge is struck up from the body of thecap as shown.

At the center of the cap is formed an aperture at through which acork-screw or other stopper-extractor may be inserted into the stopperfor withdrawing it from the bottle.

In case penetrating points are used one or both as e e may be formed incutting the aperture d and subsequently turned down as shown to enterthe cork. The penetrating points may be formed at the outer edge of thecap if desired as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 4 or both sets maybe used if desired.

The cap may be formed at the outer edge with a bead as shown at f toobviate cutting a capsule if used and to cause it to more firmly engagewith the top of the cork.

It wil be noticed that the notches Ct reach into the detents 6 also intothe ridge 0 removing part of the same which leaves an elevated lip 0.and c for retaining the wires.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As an improved article of manufacture,

a cork cap formed with two or more opposite notches at the edge of thecap, and detents adjacent to said notches, struck up from the metalsubstantially as described.

2. A cork cap formed with a central elevated ridge, and with detentsadjacent to said ridge, and notches at the edge between said centralridge and said detents substantially as described.

3. A cork cap formed with a central elevated ridge, and with adjacentdetents and notches at the edge between the said ridge and said detents,said notches being formed to remove a portion of the ridge and a portionof the detents substantially as described.

4. A cork cap formed with a central ridge, and with detents adjacentthereto, and a central aperture ,and penetrating points and with notchesat the edge between the central ridge and the said detents substantiallyas described.

GEORGE O. COO'N.

Witnesses:

H. A. WEST, MILTON GOLDSMITH.

